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Princeton University MPA Public Policy/International Development 2004
Chulalongkorn University BA International Relations 2001

As an undergraduate studying Chemistry and Life Sciences in Taiwan, I engaged in a structural biology study about the crystal structure determination of mitochondrial nuclease MGME1. This study revealed the molecular mechanism of MGME1's function in mtDNA maintenance and motivated me to extend my knowledge of structural biology and mitochondrial biology in the Mitochondrial Biology Unit at the University of Cambridge. My future research will focus on using Cryo-EM for determining the structure of human mitochondrial ATP/ADP carriers, which play a vital role in cellular energy production. I hope my research can not only uncover the molecular mechanism of mitochondrial functions but also promote mitochondria-targeting drug discovery for the betterment of human health. Besides research, I wish that I could contribute to the scientific education in my hometown, Tainan. I want to facilitate the collaboration between local universities and high schools, making the scientific resources available for any potential and motivated young scientists. I am thrilled to meet all Gates Cambridge Scholars in this fantastic academic community.

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National Cheng Kung University Chemistry and Life Sciences 2024

Over the past few years I have worked with and founded educational institutions that provide students with opportunities to engage in hands-on democratic self-governance. As one deeply concerned about the decline of civic participation in developed democracies, these experiences have changed the way I think about political life and the way we prepare young people to take leadership in it. I am passionate about creating new ways to make civic education less rote and more experiential, and I am excited to explore possibilities for this innovation through the MPhil in Politics, Development, and Democratic Education at Cambridge. I hope to draw on this education in my future career: helping schools structurally integrate democratic practices into their administration and pedagogy, creating programs that give young people meaningful governance experience, and empowering students for lives of active civic engagement in their communities and world.

I did my PhD in the Material Science Department (Device Materials Group). Currently I am a yield engineer in the fab at Intel.

I am a lawyer by profession and most recently served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Mr. Justice Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada. Prior to this, between 2008 and 2010, I practiced in the area of general commercial litigation at a Wall Street firm. My experience working at the epicenter of the Global Financial Crisis made me realize the need fundamentally reform the governance and regulation of large financial institutions. To this end, I am pursuing a Master of Law and writing a thesis that I hope will propose a regulatory framework better suited to mitigating the systemic risks that materialized three years ago. In 2011, I became a Fellow of Action Canada, where I am studying the links between inequality and the knowledge-based economy. I am also President of the CAPE Scholarship, which helps people from disadvantaged backgrounds pursue professional studies. Upon completion of my studies, I will join the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law as an assistant professor.

While a student at Harvard University, I completed a BS in Biomedical Engineering, and an MS in Biomedical Engineering. My research throughout college included designing medical devices for dialysis patients, new filtration systems for biological fluid disposal, and focused ultrasound work for chemical treatment and biological applications. I dedicated much of my time serving as Statistician for the Harvard Varsity Football Team and Chairman of the Institute of Politics Fellows Selection Committee, among others. In addition, I co-founded American Aptitude, a non-profit, non-partisan group dedicated to improving and promoting civic education throughout the United States. I spent 2013-2014 in India as a Fulbright Scholar designing low-cost medical devices and working on public health projects. I have also worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. At Cambridge, I have worked to develop a device to deliver medicines to breastfeeding infants, which I hope will improve access to quality, affordable healthcare solutions worldwide.

Research in Prof. Sir Alan Fersht's lab in the Department of Chemistry and the MRC Centre Protein Engineering at the Addenbrook's site. Research is on protein folding using spectroscopy and other physical techniques. Other areas of interest include neurobiology, membrane biophysics, single molecule studies, protein recognition and binding, genomics, and systems biology.

As an undergraduate in Physics at the University of Oxford, I became fascinated with applying physical, mathematical and computational methods to biological questions. In my PhD at Cambridge, I worked with computational models of RNA secondary structures in order to understand what types of structural changes are likely to occur through random mutations. This is relevant in evolutionary processes. In addition to my research, I served as Vice President of the Gates Cambridge Scholars' Council in 2019/20. I am now a postdoc at the University of Oxford.

Previous Education

University of Oxford

I am interested in the way organisms evolve and the genetic basis behind these processes. My background is mainly ecological having worked with different groups such as crustaceans, protists, birds, oaks and cacti. This has given me a broad view of the way different organisms adapt to their environment. Now I will focus on plant evolution; what I like the most about this subject is the possibility to unveil the complex mechanisms that control the incredible developmental plasticity plants exhibit. In my PhD I’ll be analyzing the evolution of floral morphology in snapdragon from a molecular and ecological perspective. This information will help us to explain how subtle changes in the developmental patterns of the organisms can have enormous consequences for life on the planet.

After I received a BA in Romance Languages from Mt Holyoke College, I joined Teach For America and dedicated myself to improving the educational prospects of my seventh grade students in Phoenix. My passion for education and literature prompted me to pursue an MPhil in European Literature at Cambridge, St John's College. I am now able to combine my academic interests in storytelling with my passion for social change, as a Program Manager at a youth-serving nonprofit in Seattle.

I left home when 16 to become a cadet of the Military School "Teulié" of Milan where I served for three years until the award of my high school diploma. After a brief encounter with the Italian Higher Education I enrolled onto a Chemistry BSc at Imperial College London.I have conducted academic research since a first year undergraduate student, first as an experimental physical chemist and then as a computational physicist. My present work involves the development of numerical techniques for the computation of volumes in high dimensional spaces and their exploration by Monte Carlo sampling methods as well as their application to the development of a statistical theory of granular physics.

As a child, two of my favourite books were a collection of Greek myths, mainly from the Iliad and the Odyssey, and a biography of Alexander the Great; both a love for books and a curiosity for the past have stayed with me since. I was lucky to grow up in Italy first, then in Belgium, and when I made the leap across the Channel to study History at Cambridge I already saw myself as a European citizen. My fascination for the philosophes of the Enlightenment initially lured me towards the eighteenth century, but a combination of chance and opportunity led me to focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries instead. As I researched the history of a Florentine family relocating to South Germany in the midst of the Thirty Years’ War for my Master’s, I found in the past some parallels with my own experience of transnational movement. For my PhD I will cross not just national but also disciplinary boundaries, investigating the uses of hydraulic knowledge and expertise across three early modern cities, Florence, Augsburg, and Amsterdam. Retracing the careers of hydraulic experts responsible for monumental fountains and mundane sewage systems alike, my PhD was at the crossroads between the history of science, art history, and environmental history. In particular, I contributed to the field of water history, which has very concrete implications for the present, and for ensuring that we can continue to hold water in shared and sustainable possession with fellow humans.

After finishing the PhD in 2023, I have taken up a one-year postdoc in architectural history at the Universität Bern, in Switzerland. From January 2025, I will be a Wiener-Anspach Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium.

Previous Education

Birmingham City University Education (Primary) 2019
University of Cambridge Early Modern History 2017
University of Cambridge History 2016

Scuba diving through reefs affected by coral bleaching in Southeast Asia, I witnessed the downstream consequences of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In between my studies in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toronto, my work experiences in the wastewater, metallurgical, and nuclear energy industries introduced me to problems dealing with the environmental effects of energy production and consumption. In addition, a fourth-year undergraduate project with industry advisers from NASA exposed me to the possibility of transforming carbon emissions from waste product to valuable resource. Most recently, as an MIT graduate student, I worked on a team in charge of organizing the MIT Energy Conference - the largest student-run energy conference in the United States. During my MPhil in Energy Technologies at Cambridge, I plan to work on electrochemical energy storage technologies capable of meeting new demands with integrating renewables into our energy generation mix. As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, I will seek to apply my research to creating a sustainable world for future generations.

Previous Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
University of Toronto

After spending a year teaching at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (http://www.aims.ac.za) I have returned to Cambridge to complete my PhD in theoretical physics. I hope to use my background in physics and education to expand educational opportunities for young people everywhere, especially in the developing world.

I am interested in examining the intersection between criminal law and the application of human rights in order to help those who are not served by the justice system and criminal law.